50 years since Chile coup – vital lessons for the working class today
MONDAY 11th September will be the 50th anniversary of the seizure of power by the Chilean military, led by general Augusto Pinochet, backed by...
Workers and the trade unions must take action to bring down split Tories!
ON Friday 15th September 14 trade unions representing over a million nurses and NHS staff wrote to Tory Chancellor Hammond, to demand a 3.9%...
Palestinians warn Israel over Jabal al-Baba ethnic cleansing!
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Monday warned Israel that the Jabal al-Baba community to the east of Jerusalem is a red line, warning...
Support Iran’s right to a nuclear programme
YESTERDAY in London, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, met to discuss hauling Iran in front of the Security...
Corbyn must demand to recall parliament at once to stop any UK attack on...
IT is becoming clearer that PM May intends that UK land, air and naval forces will take part in the Franco-American strike against Syria...
Cameron dreams on while stock markets collapse
IN a radio interview yesterday morning the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, pronounced that the UK economy was seeing a ‘balanced economic recovery.’ All this...
Browne echoes Bush on need for bigger army
PRESIDENT Bush, on Wednesday, called for a major expansion of the US army, and yesterday, the British Defence Minister, Browne, slavishly echoed his master’s...
UK recession ‘inevitable’ – only socialist revolution can end capitalist crisis
THE FICTION of a ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ for British capitalism is now firmly rejected by even the most loyal of...
UN Condemns Eu Over Mass Murder In The Med!
THE UN refugee agency has said once again that not enough is being done to save the lives of the tens of thousands of...
The answer to ‘Fat Cat Thursday’ – Socialist Revolution
THE MASSIVE gap in wealth between workers and the bosses has once again been highlighted in a new report which shows that the chief...
Lebanon and Iraq erupt as masses demand political overthrow of their governments
LEBANON erupted over the weekend with renewed clashes between thousands of demonstrators and security forces on Sunday following violent clashes in Beirut on Saturday...
NOW is the time for the TUC to call a general strike to support...
THE nurses’ strike actions have revealed that they have the massive support of the vast majority of the working class in the UK, and...
Lagarde issues world crisis warning
CHRISTINE Lagarde, the chief of the IMF, warned the bosses and the bankers yesterday, in a speech in Japan, that the crisis is a...
Kick May And The Tories Out Now With A General Strike! Forward To...
PM MAY yesterday morning announced she was resigning as Tory leader and Prime Minister in two weeks on June 7. May said that the...
Labour leadership contenders back Tory cuts
ALL four of the declared candidates for Labour Party leader, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall and Mary Creagh, have been busy over...
The Chief Banker Condemns The Banks
THE governor of the bank of England, Mervyn King, has launched a scathing attack on the major UK banks, accusing them of trying to...
China, Russia Vote For Security Council Savage Sanctions Against North Korea
THE UN Security Council last Friday unanimously adopted a new set of draconian US-proposed sanctions against North Korea to further strangle its energy supplies...
Wave of corporate defaults looms across the world – Socialist revolution the only answer...
A WAVE of corporate defaults is imminent throughout the US and Europe, analysts at the German Deutsche Bank warn in its annual study released...
TUC must back railworkers, and postal workers and call a general strike to bring...
THE EMERGENCY anti-union regulations, passed in the House of Commons by 289 votes to 202 on Monday night, are set to be used to...
Turkey Poised To Invade Northern Iraq
THE Turkish army is poised to invade northern Iraq in order to respond to PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) attacks on its troops, which...
HSBC new ‘dirty money’ laundering allegations
THE HSBC bank, the biggest bank in Europe, says it is looking into allegations that it has set up a large number of offshore...
The working class must force its leaders to call a general strike to bring...
PM Sunak’s new anti-trade union legislation will make the UK one of the most difficult countries in the world to go on strike, a...
Build Fourth International Throughout Africa
THE victory of the strike of the Lonmim miners will inspire not just the workers of South Africa and Africa as a whole, but...
Obama tries to put a sticking plaster over the gaping wounds of US capitalism
US President Barack Obama has hailed the deal reached with the Republican Party to avert a ‘fiscal cliff’ of huge tax rises and spending...
Defeat Imperialist war with Socialist revolution
THE TRUMP administration imposed its long threatened sanctions against Iran yesterday – a move that was greeted with dire warnings from market analysts that...
Latest inflation figures spur Tories and Bank of England to ramp up attack on...
INFLATION figures yesterday, that recorded a drop in the inflation rate to 6.8% in July, have been greeted by the Tories and the Bank...
Temporary ceasefire while US rearms Ukrainian army and militias
AN agreement has been reached in Minsk to cease fire in Ukraine from midnight Sunday, February 15. Russian President Vladimir Putin commented yesterday that...
Israel closes Irish embassy in fury over Ireland’s recognition of Palestine and its support...
THE DECISION by the Israeli regime on Sunday to close its embassy in Dublin brought a swift response from Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister) Simon...
Answer the capitalist crisis with a socialist programme
THE deepening capitalist crisis has seen the breakdown of the decisive Doha Round of World Trade Organisation talks, with the United States refusing and...
Blow the whistle on the Tories by kicking them out
THE TORY health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, yesterday announced that the government is to issue for consultation draft guidelines that, it claims, will end the...
Workers Of The World Unite To Smash Racism And To Win Socialism!
MICHAEL Fallon, Tory defence secretary, did an Enoch Powell (he made his anti-immigrant ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech in 1968) when he claimed on Sunday...
Tories have driven NHS to breaking point! The trade unions must call a general...
THE NHS is at breaking point! This is the warning from doctors, nurses and NHS staff, furious that the Tories did absolutely nothing to...
Gove calls for parents to scab
Over the weekend the Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove issued a call for parents to volunteer to break Thursday’s strike by civil servants and...
The blind Chancellor who cannot see the crisis
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday could not see and would not even hear of a crisis in the British capitalist economy that he has presided...
TUC must call a general strike to expropriate the bosses and put an end...
MATT WRACK, the President of the TUC and the general secretary of the FBU, correctly said on election day, July 4th, that Labour’s post-election...
Capitalism hits end of the road – now is time to end it with...
ELON MUSK, the world’s first dollar trillionaire, set another record this week when he became the biggest ever loser of personal wealth on record. Musk’s...
China has beaten coronavirus while Tories will allow 60% of the population to be...
CHINA’S Wuhan province reported a zero increase in new coronavirus infections last week. China has beaten the virus and with no new cases, their...
Answer Macron’s declaration of war on French workers with a general strike
FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron made his annual New Year address to the nation yesterday calling for ‘unity’ and an end to the ‘hateful’ attacks...
Tories and military show contempt for Parliament
THE ‘sovereign will’ of parliament was shown to be a complete fiction with the exposure of the participation of British pilots in bombing raids...
Labour under ex-prosecutor Starmer cannot win a general election – What is needed is...
LABOUR has failed to dominate the council elections despite the illegal actions of PM Johnson, and the way that under his government living standards...
Revolution not bourgeois aid or charity, the future for Africa
ON Saturday, leaders of the capitalist world, from the Pope and his Cardinals to various Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and not a few Chancellors...
Labour Continues To Persecute The Poor
LABOUR’S leaders love the rich and have no time for the poor. As a government, Labour turned Britain into a second tax-free home for Russian...
Israel attacks Gaza and Abbas cancels visit
YESTERDAY an Israeli aircraft bombed a building of the Hamas-run Executive Force in Gaza, killing at least one person and injuring about 45 others....
Stalinist Putin condemns Lenin, but has kept his party card!
LENIN wrote ‘The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self Determination’ in July 1916, just months after the Easter Rising in Dublin...
Cameron’s beat, beat, and beat again ruling class morality!
THE Tory-led coalition's savage attack on welfare claimants and the inevitable poverty and destitution they have caused for millions of working class families ...